[X4U] Can't set MS Word as the default

[wilkinw]

TCC, clean the cache files.

On Oct 20, 2008, at 8:47 AM, James Hurley wrote:

> I don't know how this happened but my Mac suddenly has trouble  
> recognizing Word documents.
>
> Even the screen icon is now missing on Word documents.
>
> If I control-click on a Word document, the default program to open a  
> Word file is Text Edit. If I select Other and choose MS Word in my  
> Applications folder it does open it word. But only that one time.  
> The next time I try to open it, Text Edit is again the default  
> application.
>
> If I do a Get Info on a Word file, Text Edit is listed as the  
> application in which the file will open. If I select Other and  
> choose Word, then MS Word appears in the drop down menu as the app  
> to open  the file. But if I then click on the "Change All" button,  
> the drop down menu changes to Word Pad, an application that needs to  
> go through Fusion to open.  It is not possible to do a Change All to  
> MS Word.
>
> Any thoughts on this very weird avoidance of Word as the app for  
> opening Word documents?
>
> Jim Hurley
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